Help Football

This is part of our efforts to improve football. In this column we discuss the key issues facing football – using more technology, money in the game, diving / simulation, developing young players and football training in general, changes to rules (governing football and clubs) and a lot more.

Over the past month, the United States Department of Justice has dramatically cracked down on corruption that has plagued FIFA, the international governing body of soccer, since the 1970s. In an early morning raid at a luxury hotel, Swiss police … Read More→

Watching the first leg of the Champions’ League quarter final tie between Atletico Madrid and their city rivals, Real Madrid, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a match completely dominated by Real. I, like many others, was quick to … Read More→

The days of George Best turning up at Old Trafford half-an-hour before kick-off, quickly getting changed into the red of Manchester United and running out onto the pitch to torment the opposition are well and truly over. The modern game … Read More→

A resounding yes would be the answer to that particular question unless you are one of the Blatter camp. It was Kenny Rogers who best summed it up, in song. “You’ve got to know when to hold ‘em , know … Read More→

With the current debate about the 2022 World Cup hotting up the topic of football technology centres on two aspects of advancement that will take centre stage in Qatar, although the other critical element is whether or not the tournament … Read More→

The Premier League has been hit by another serious scandal. After Andy Gray and Richard Keys’ sexist comments and John Terry and Luis Suarez’s racism incidents, we now have a case with both the discriminations rolled into one. Former Cardiff … Read More→

Football or Soccer and Rugby are two completely different games and going in different directions. Despite football being more popular there are many aspects from rugby that could be used to improve the overall image of the game. Rugby is … Read More→

Arsenal suffered a huge blow this month after their star winger Theo Walcott was ruled out for rest of the season due to an Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injury. It is one of the most common injuries in football and … Read More→

How do you improve grass-roots football? One of the best ways to ensure that is to train the coaches at lower levels, and when you have so little money available for the game at the lower level, personal time spent … Read More→

Many fans from England and beyond are tied to a misconception in which the foreign players in the Premier League are doing damage to the quality of new English talents and the national football team. The fact that England reached … Read More→

Tottenham missed out on Champions League qualification in 2011, despite finishing fourth in the Premier League, due to sixth-placed Chelsea winning the tournament. However, this will be a thing of the past from the 2014-15 season, as Uefa is set … Read More→